Allen Wranglers GM Drew Pearson on T.O.: Things we expected him to do just weren't getting done

Former Cowboys All-Pro receiver Drew Pearson and general manager of the Allen Wranglers joined Ben & Skin on KESN-FM 103.3 to talk about the team parting ways with receiver and co-owner Terrell Owens. Here are some highlights.

What can you tell us about how this relationship fell apart with T.O.?

Drew Pearson: Well, first of all, this is just my opinion. Jon Frankel (co-owner) gave Terrell an excellent opportunity to play, to try to rejuvenate his NFL career. We all knew that. But also an excellent opportunity to help him start preparing for life after football, as far as part-ownership of the Allen Wranglers. Terrell embraced that initially with tremendous enthusiasm. He was a model citizen, did everthing right. But throughout the whole process, the process being the extent of the season to this point, that enthusiasm continually deteriorated. The things that we needed him to do, or expected him to do just weren't getting done.

It just wasn't a good fit in the end. It was a great fit in the beginning. It got the Wrangler name out there. Terrell performed tremendously, was a great teammate and all that. Somewhere along the line, with him being gone, playing home games and not playing away games, it causes some disruption within your team. You can't really build chemistry within your football team with one player doing those kind of things. What it led to was other players thinking they can do this and they can do that because they saw Terrell do this and they saw Terrell do that. It was a decision that just had to be made.

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